STANLEY (Henry M.)
Authorized Souvenir Programme of the Henry M. Stanley Lecture Tour through the United States and Canada ...
Shortly after his marriage to Dorothea Tennant in 1890, Stanley departed on a series of lecture tours overseas. The first to the United States and Canada was followed shortly thereafter by one to Australia and New Zealand. The two subjects addressed in the lecture were the Emin Pasha expedition and then “The Great Forests of Central Africa, its Cannibals and Pigmies, the Mountains of the Moon and the Sources of the Nile.” The programs list the full 120 date tour and includes a brief biographical sketch of Stanley along with portraits of Stanley, Surgeon Thos. Heazle Parke, Mounteney Jephson, Lieut. Stairs, and Capt. R.H. Nelson. Evidently this one program was used to serve throughout the tour and stamped differently for each venue and town. This program is stamped for the January 5 lecture at Hartman’s Hall in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
